Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
Justin
justin-cypherpunks at soze.net
Fri Feb 4 12:21:47 PST 2005
On 2005-02-04T14:30:48-0500, Mark Allen Earnest wrote:
> The government was not able to get the Clipper chip passed and that was
> backed with the horror stories of rampant pedophilia, terrorism, and
> organized crime. Do you honestly believe they will be able to destroy
> open source, linux, independent software development, and the like with
> just the fear of movie piracy, mp3 sharing, and such? Do you really
> think they are willing to piss off large sections of the voting
> population, the tech segment of the economy, universities, small
> businesses, and the rest of the world just because the MPAA and RIAA
> don't like customers owning devices they do not control?
They managed with the HTDV broadcast flag mandate.
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men; some he makes slaves, others free." --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)
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